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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1950
Page
8
Advertisement presents numerous real estate offers including 5 to 4 room modern houses with features like garages, fenced lots, gardens, and proximity to schools. Also lists 116 to 372 acre tracts with wells, outbuildings, and oil well proximity, with prices from 3 500 to 25 per acre.
Ferndale Creamery will give away six dollars of dairy products weekly for eight weeks starting Monday May 8. Pasteurized whole milk bottle caps hide award numbers participants must find to claim prizes and may win.
The article lists Dr. A A Harding University of Illinois J J Richards conductor of the Long Beach Band Karl King director of the Municipal Band Fort Dodge Harold Bachman University of Florida Glen Cliffe Bainum Northwestern Evanston and Dr Dewey O Wiley Texas Tech College Lubbock Texas. If the band performs the girls will be housed in private homes the boys in club halls schools or churches. A local chaperone will accompany each group.
Ads announce a free prize proposition from a 40 year old Bowie business, a home-owned and home-operated institution run by the Hoeldtke family. The notice highlights long standing local ownership.
An ad for A B C Washers from Moyer‑Duttons at 221 B Smythe St promotes cleaner whiter and softer laundry with a phone number 341. The copy emphasizes brighter results and household ease from the Mohler store.
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